Movable combination counter and shelving



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D. HUNT. MOVABLE COMBINATION COUNTER AND SHELVING.

(Application filed May 7, 1898.\ (No Model.)

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MOVABLE COMBINATION COUNTER AND SHELVING.

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lhyiTEn STATES PATENT OEETEET DANIEL HUNT, OF VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS.

MOVABLE COMBINATION COUNTER AND SHELVING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,021, dated January3, 1899.

Application filed May 7,1898. Serial No. 680,032. (No model.)

T 0 it whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL HUNT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Van Buren, in the countyof Crawford and State of Arkansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Movable CombinationCounters and Shelvings; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to thefigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention consists of movable combination counters and shelvings; andit consists of counters with bins adapted to hold groceries, fruits,&c., on their front sides and means for storing duplicates of the samein their rear sides, and shelvings adapted to rest on said counters andto be secured to the same by hooks and eyes or suitable means, saidcounters and shelvings set on casters, so that they,with their contents,may be quickly and easily rolled out of the storehouse in case of fireor high water.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of mycounter. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of Fig. 1on the line 3 3. Fig. 4 is a cross-seotion of Fig. 1 on the line 4 4.Fig. 5 is a front elevation of part of my counter with the shelvingsmounted thereon, secured to the counter, to each other, and the wall ofthe building.

My invention is described as follows:

1 is the top slab of my counter.

2 are the legs.

3 are the casters.

4 are the grocery-bins, secured to the front face of the counter andrunning back to a partition-wall 5 in the center of the counter,whichwall extends along the center of the counter the full length of thegrocery-bins whether there be one grocery-bin, two, three, or more.These bins 4 are provided with lids 6. For the same length of these binsand the partition 5 the rear partof the counter is left open, forming adepository 7, in which may be stored groceries, duplicating thegroceries stored in the front bins.

In the said counter are also fruit-bins 8,

having open wire fronts 9 and are set on rollers. These bins are of openslatwork 10, the rear posts 11 of which work on the inside of thecounter and are provided with rollers 12, which run on the floorlS ofthe counter,while their front posts 14 are provided with casters 15 andrun on the floor of the building. The upper ends of the posts 11 reachto the lower face of the slab 1 and coming against the sill 11-],-prevent the bin from being drawn e11- tirely out except by carefullyraising the legs 14 and drawing out the lower ends of the posts 11, thatwork on the rollers 12.

Hinged to the rear face of the counter, adapted to be locked in avertical position and the full length of the row of fruit-bins, is ashelf 16, set on casters 17 and adapted to close the rear openings ofthe counter. On this shelf, when down, may be stored fruits, groceries,and such like articles as are stored in the open bins in front.

These counters are made no heavier nor longer than is necessary, theobject being that any one of them, with their contents, may be run outof the store by one man. They are preferably made about eight feet long,but may be made longer or shorter, as many being used as is necessary tosupply the store, and a counter may be supplied entirely withgrocery-bins and rear depository or entirely with fruit-bins and rearhinged shelf; but they are preferably made as shown in the drawings-partgrocery and part fruit bins.

Fig. 5 shows my shelvings mounted on one of my counters, half of thecounter, however, being broken away.

When I use my counter for my slielvings and set it against the wall, Imay and generally do first remove the hinged shelf 16, and I may andsometimes do remove the grocery and fruit bins, but it is not absolutelynecessary to do so.

My shelvings 18 are mounted on rollers 19 and are secured together andto the counter and to the Wall by hooks and eyes 20. Each piece of myshelvings is made small and light enough, so that one man may unhook itand run it out of the building.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In movable counters and shelvings, the

1 a the rear openings of the counter; said counter adapted to carryother bins, 4, and to have secured to it shelvings, 18, substantially asshown and described for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature I 5 in presence of twowitnesses.

DANIEL HUNT. \Vitnesses:

E. A. TAYLOR, JOHN T. CLARK.

